Recently, Anhui Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology and other five departments jointly issued a notice to strengthen the construction management of chemical projects.
Notice is clear, it is strictly prohibited to build new restricted class and new (change, expand) to build eliminated class chemical projects; New production projects of highly toxic chemicals will be strictly restricted, and enterprises producing highly toxic chemicals will only be reduced, not increased, and in principle no new phosgene production enterprises will be approved. New production capacities in excess industries such as urea, ammonium phosphate, calcium carbide, caustic soda (except trona), polyvinyl chloride, soda ash (except trona) and yellow phosphorus will be strictly controlled, and projects that really need to be built will be replaced with the same amount or reduced amount. Strictly control the introduction of high-risk projects involving photogasification, nitrification, diazotization, azotization process and explosive chemicals such as ammonium nitrate, guanidine nitrate, nitrobenzene series, etc. In principle, no introduction of non-major industrial supporting projects, industrial chain connection or high-tech products projects.
Newly built chemical projects shall conform to the investment admittance threshold of local chemical industrial parks. Among them, the production projects involving hazardous chemicals should increase the investment in safety and environmental protection, and appropriately improve the investment access requirements; Projects that are listed in the encouraged categories of the National Guiding Catalogue of Industrial Structure Adjustment and Guiding Catalogue of Industries with Foreign Investment and those that are relocated to the Park may be relaxed appropriately. The specific standards shall be formulated by each city and announced to the public.
The circular makes clear that the construction of new chemical projects in the ecological protection red line, permanent basic farmland, ecological space and agricultural space is prohibited. Those that have been built shall be moved out within a time limit in accordance with relevant regulations.
In terms of shoreline management, the circular requires that within 1 kilometer of the shoreline of the Yangtze River, the main stream of the Huaihe River and its main tributaries, the construction or expansion of new chemical projects and the layout of new chemical industrial parks (including concentrated areas of chemical industry) are strictly prohibited, except for technical renovation projects to improve safety, environmental protection, energy conservation, intelligence and product quality. The project that has not been approved to start, the construction is stopped and the site is relocated as required; Those that have already started construction shall be subjected to strict inspection and evaluation, and those that do not meet the requirements of shoreline planning, environmental protection and safety shall be stopped and relocated in accordance with the law and regulations. New heavy chemical and pollution projects, such as petrochemical and coal chemical projects, will be strictly controlled within 5 kilometers of the shoreline of the Yangtze and Huaihe rivers.
The relocation and renovation of hazardous chemical production enterprises or the construction of new chemical projects must be carried out in the standardized chemical industrial parks recognized by the provincial government. Heavy polluting chemical enterprises in urban built-up areas and key river basins, as well as enterprises producing hazardous chemicals, should speed up their retreat from cities to parks.
In terms of access to safety standards, it is forbidden to construct backward production technologies that fail to meet safety standards, to entrust design units with corresponding qualifications to carry out process design, to relocate new (reform, expansion) construction projects that use old equipment. Reaction safety risk assessment shall be carried out in accordance with regulations for new (reformed or expanded) construction of fine chemical projects, and projects with reaction process risk level 5 shall be prohibited and projects with reaction process risk level 4 shall be strictly restricted.
